Happy Breast Cancer Awareness month! Would you care for a pink ribbon cookie? Or is that ... wait ... are those dicks? Or are they vaginas? Imagine one woman's surprise when she was perusing the baked goods in her University's cafeteria and she…

To be clear, raising money to increase awareness and find a cure for breast cancer is a great, important thing. But Susan G. Komen For The Cure, which lost all of my support when they pulled funding from Planned Parenthood,…

Last year, a woman was diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes, according to Susan G. Komen. This year? Every two minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer. Want to know what’s even scarier? Although African-American women tend to be diagnosed with breast cancer less often than Caucasian women, we’re more likely to die…

Finnish designer Elina Halttunen is a breast cancer survivor "with one breast and a passion for swimming." She collaborated with Finnish art duo Tärähtäneet ämmät (“Nutty Tarts”) to make these incredible "monokinis," designed especially for women who have lost a breast to the disease. “Having only one breast made finding fitting bikinis difficult. Therefore I fashioned…

Us ladies can always use another reminder to touch ourselves ... while checking for lumps on our breasts, obviously. Olivia Newton-John and other Australian celebs teamed up for a cover of the Divinyls' classic "I Touch Myself" — written by the late Chrissy Amphlett, who died from breast cancer — for this touching reminder. […

A breast cancer survivor in Australia posted powerful, naked photos on Facebook to show the hidden effects of breast cancer on a woman’s body, which is something that goes largely unmentioned when we think about breast cancer. Her goal is to raise awareness about cancer prevention, and expose the reality of the disease, as opposed…

The New York Times' Bill Keller and his wife Emma Gibley Keller (in the UK's Guardian — which has since been removed) have criticized a woman named Lisa Bonchek Adam, a blogger who is battling stage IV breast cancer, while questioning the "ethics" of writing about terminal illness and comparing it to "funeral selfies." The whole…

Few things in life are ever guaranteed. We would all like to believe that we have forever with our spouses and that no one will ever get sick and die. But we don't. We are all lucky for every single blessed second we get. This is a lesson no one gets more tha…

Angelo and Jennifer Merendino were married only five short months when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Angelo decided to catalog his wife's treatment through his photographs, which he posted on a blog titled My Wife's Fight With Breast Cancer. The images are beautiful, startling and heartbreaking, especially as they reveal Jennifer'…

You may recall the skeevy dudes of YouTube channel Simple Pickup who managed to persuade more than 100 women to be motorboated to raise funds for breast cancer research. Well, they ended up donating more than $2,000 burying their faces in tits, all of which was flat-out rejected by the Breast…

When life threw Michele Prieve Wilkinson a curveball with a breast cancer diagnosis, she chose positivity. A survivor in more ways than one, she just completed her second Ironman Wisconsin competition last month. Wilkinson, who is gracing the cover of Brava magazine this month, participated…

Ah, the Hand Bra: I know it well. Granted, I am more familiar with the Rachel Krause Hand Bra than the Rebecca Romijn Hand Bra, but a Hand Bra is a Hand Bra and they all work just the same. Except Rebecca's version helps to call attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, while mine functio…

"Boobies" isn't a bad word, especially when it's being used to promote a breast cancer awareness campaign. A judge in Pennsylvania seems to think so, too, which is why he reversed a Pennsylvania school district's decision to ban the "I (Heart) Boobies" bracelets. In a 9-5 decision, the court ruled that the "bracelets here are…

Was Angelina Jolie duped into an unnecessary double mastectomy by greedy surgeons who just wanted to mutiliate her for no other reason than to cash in on the expensive procedure? Such is the theory going around naturalistic circles. There are plenty of people who sincerely believe that cancer -- even if you are genetically predisposed to certain types of…

"I'm quite emotional about it, of course. She could have stayed absolutely private about it and I don't think anyone would have been none the wiser with such good results. But it was really important to her to share the story and that others would understand it doesn't have to be a scary thing. I…

In the wake of Angelina Jolie's stunning double mastectomy news, we wanted to speak with a genetic counselor to find out a little bit more about how Angelina Jolie -- and so many other women -- came to the…

In a stunning New York Times op-ed piece, Angelina Jolie revealed that she'd recently had a double mastectomy. The actress and mother of 6 revealed that she'd considered the procedure after finding out that she carries a mutation in her BRCA1 gene, which greatly increases a woman's risk for…

Perhaps you missed this, but last week, Facebook was in a tizzy over a topless photo of a breast cancer survivor showing off her chest tattoo. The piece was meant as a celebration of her survival and a means of covering up her mastectomy scars, but Facebook classified the image as "pornographic." The company's official…

Did you know that about 10,000 “young” women will get breast cancer this year? I do now. I am one of them. It all started while my boyfriend and I were away for a long weekend to celebrate my 29th birthday. We were lying in bed and I reached my arm across my body. There…

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Taking a page out of those girls you went to high school with who can't stop smugly posting every detail of their perfect lives on Facebook, Lady Gaga shaded America's youngest grandma Taylor Swift just perfectly on Twitter yesterday. It all started when Jaime King's unborn child's godmother tweeted about Gaga, using the preferred…

Oh look, it's hottest DILF alive, Ryan Gosling, making a rare appearance in public grabbing lunch in LA today. And what's that I see? In addition to his perfectly worn T-shirt (that collar is stretched just so), hoodie and leather jacket, the Gos is rocking a few faint letters on his knuckles, spelling out the…